Sample of Twitter Standard Search API Python Requests

search_tweets.py

import requests
import os
apikey = os.environ['TWITTER_TOKEN']

BASE_URL = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json'
def get_tweets(query, apikey, base_url=BASE_URL, next_results=None):
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer {key}".format(key=apikey)}    
    if next_results is None:
        url = base_url
        params = {'q': query}
    else:
        url = '{}{}'.format(base_url, next_results)
        params = None
    res = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
    res.raise_for_status()

    data = res.json()
    for tweet in data['statuses']:
        yield tweet

    metadata = data['search_metadata']
    if 'next_results' in metadata:
        get_tweets(query, apikey, next_results=metadata['next_results'])

data = get_tweets('from:lyumei', apikey=apikey)
for t in data:
    print(t['id'], t['text'])